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Definition of Dominican nuns

Dominican nuns
Dominican Do*min"i*can, a. [NL. Dominicanus, fr. Dominicus, Dominic, the founder: cf. F. Dominicain.] Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religions communities named from him. Dominican nuns, an order of nuns founded by St. Dominic, and chiefly employed in teaching. Dominican tertiaries (the third order of St. Dominic). See Tertiary.

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- The Dominican nuns were founded by Dominic even before he had established the friars. They are contemplatives in the cloistered life. The nuns celebrated...
- Clement XI Agnese Segni (c. 1268–1317), Professed Religious of the Dominican Nuns (Italy) Beatified: 1532 by Pope Clement VII Canonized: 10 December 1726...
- The Dominican Nuns of the Perpetual Rosary are a religious institute founded in 1880 in Calais, France, by Father Damien-Marie Saintourens, Mother Rose...
- institutes of nuns and sisters (the female equivalent of male monks or friars), each with its own charism or special character. Traditionally, nuns are members...
- be involved in various ministries. Nuns - The "Second Order" actually pre-dates the friars, as the Dominican nuns trace their founding to a monastery...
- Midwest. As of 2017, they have 209 sisters in the congregation. The nuns of the Dominican Second Order, had been founded by St. Dominic de Guzman in 1206...
- Sor Lucía Caram Padilla (born 21 October 1966) is a Dominican Order nun, chef, writer, and presenter. She is Argentine, and currently resides in Spain...
- Cistercian nuns (mid-13th century–early-mid 16th century); Dominican nuns (1575–1640) Tänikon Abbey (dissolved) at Aadorf (Aargau): Cistercian nuns Tedlingen...
- (1524–1588) was a self-taught nun-artist and the first ever known female Renaissance painter of Florence. She was a nun of the Dominican convent of St. Catherine...
- LoBianco, Tom (2008). "Protesting nuns branded terrorists". The Washington Times. Retrieved 23 August 2012. "Maryland Nuns Branded as Suspected Terrorists"...